I was gifted an ARC of this by the publisher in 2022. I received this copy for free and this review contains my honest opinions. 

 

I’ve put off this title until now for two major reasons: first, I didn’t know if I was ready as a reader to dive into a dystopian story set in a post-COVID world and second, I’ve tried to buy this for my library since I first learned of it (late 2019 or early 2020) but have had difficulty tracking it down (at the time of this review this title is currently in stock on both Bookshop and through my library’s vendor, so yay!). 

 

Overall, I don’t think I was quite ready to read a near-future dystopian yet (the story was a bit to realistic in some ways for me), but I think pre-COVID this might have been a 5-star read for me. I LOVE reading multimedia books, and I really appreciated and enjoyed the focus on gardening (both as healing and as activism), environmentalism, and deaf representation. Thank you again to the publisher for gifting me an ARC.